"They felt that India was the most authentic place they traveled: There they befriended locals who invited them to dinner, played cricket with the local kids around the country, and ate $1 meals along the side of the road."

"Most of the places in southeast Asia that we traveled to after South America are more or less Westernized, even some of the more remote areas. Out of everywhere we went, we liked India the best because it seemed the most true to itself."